Twigz
12-22-2006, 03:55 PM
An Indiana teenager arrested for shoplifting filled her pockets with so many items that her weighted-down pants dropped to her ankles as she tried to run from the store, police in the town of Lapel said.
Cheyanne Dwiggins, 18, is accused of trying to steal candy, a potato peeler, an ice cream scoop, measuring spoons, cake-decorating gel tubes and a 15-ounce box of Nestle's Nesquik in her trousers.
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Christmas came early for a man locked out of his house in the Denver suburb of Westminster.
He tried to get in by sliding down his chimney - but got stuck and had to be rescued by firefighters, who used a ladder to lift him to safety.
It wasn't clear who called emergency workers, as no elves were at the scene.
married McMinnville, Tenn., woman wanted her boyfriend to think she had a high-paying job - so she stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of items in a string of burglaries.
Nickey Davidson, 25, was charged with aggravated burglary and theft in a series of house burglaries that she allegedly used to finance a double life.
"When we told her boyfriend about what had happened, he was shocked. He was even more shocked to find out she's still married," said a sheriff's spokesman.
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A sleepwalking man in Britain had to call police for help after waking up in the lobby of a hotel wearing only a string vest.
The nearly naked man woke up at 3 a.m. in the lobby of the Rutland Hotel in Torquay, Devon. He wasn't wearing his glasses and couldn't see anything except the telephone - so he dialed cops.
Police gladly helped the man, in his 70s, who wished not to have his identity revealed.
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A Portland, Ore., man who thought cops were asleep at the wheel rammed his car into a police cruiser after not being pulled over for speeding.
Jason Klopf, 35, allegedly plowed his Honda Civic into the cop car on Friday and then abandoned it - claiming he wanted cops' attention after driving more than 100 mph on city streets without getting pulled over.
BONUS
A group of 30 Belgian friends who'd been playing the same lottery numbers for weeks had a fleeting moment of joy when their combination came up for the $35 million jackpot.
But their joy quickly turned to despair when they learned that the friend responsible for buying the tickets that week had neglected to do so.
"We were all celebrating," caf? owner Christiane Farvacque said, "until lottery organizers said there was no winning entry."
Cheyanne Dwiggins, 18, is accused of trying to steal candy, a potato peeler, an ice cream scoop, measuring spoons, cake-decorating gel tubes and a 15-ounce box of Nestle's Nesquik in her trousers.
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Christmas came early for a man locked out of his house in the Denver suburb of Westminster.
He tried to get in by sliding down his chimney - but got stuck and had to be rescued by firefighters, who used a ladder to lift him to safety.
It wasn't clear who called emergency workers, as no elves were at the scene.
married McMinnville, Tenn., woman wanted her boyfriend to think she had a high-paying job - so she stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of items in a string of burglaries.
Nickey Davidson, 25, was charged with aggravated burglary and theft in a series of house burglaries that she allegedly used to finance a double life.
"When we told her boyfriend about what had happened, he was shocked. He was even more shocked to find out she's still married," said a sheriff's spokesman.
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A sleepwalking man in Britain had to call police for help after waking up in the lobby of a hotel wearing only a string vest.
The nearly naked man woke up at 3 a.m. in the lobby of the Rutland Hotel in Torquay, Devon. He wasn't wearing his glasses and couldn't see anything except the telephone - so he dialed cops.
Police gladly helped the man, in his 70s, who wished not to have his identity revealed.
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A Portland, Ore., man who thought cops were asleep at the wheel rammed his car into a police cruiser after not being pulled over for speeding.
Jason Klopf, 35, allegedly plowed his Honda Civic into the cop car on Friday and then abandoned it - claiming he wanted cops' attention after driving more than 100 mph on city streets without getting pulled over.
BONUS
A group of 30 Belgian friends who'd been playing the same lottery numbers for weeks had a fleeting moment of joy when their combination came up for the $35 million jackpot.
But their joy quickly turned to despair when they learned that the friend responsible for buying the tickets that week had neglected to do so.
"We were all celebrating," caf? owner Christiane Farvacque said, "until lottery organizers said there was no winning entry."